Cafe Disko Covers “One Dance” & “Can’t Stop the Feeling”
Pop music is fun to play with. Concrete melodies and digestable lyrics make for a good canvas to draw on, and that’s exactly what Cafe Disko has done with a pair of the biggest pop tracks of the year. Drake’s “One Dance” is the most successful of the wave of tropical house-influenced music we’ve gotten from a lot of pop’s biggest players. In Cafe Disko’s hands, “One Dance” becomes an electronic disco track, with a big horn hook to accompany the original chorus. Though it starts off in a similar blueprint to Drake’s track, Disko’s “One Dance” takes off to include builds and drops, more tropical drums, and Jameson in our vocalist’s hand rather than Hennessy. Disko gives the song a club groove, rather than the unique plodding of Drake’s OG version. It is a cover, but Cafe Disko’s “One Dance” has an awesomely different sound that can be enjoyed in its[...]